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Soudan

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French Sudan is located in Western Africa, and today called Mali. It has been under French rule since the 1880.From 1895, the territories within French West Africa used common bankotes issued by Banque du Senegal. In 1917, low denomination emergency notes were issued within each territory using the same design but different colors and local colony names overprinted.

Gouvernement Général de l’Afrique Occidentale Française

Fondée en 1895, elle était l'autorité émettrice pour les territoires de l'Afrique Occidentale Française (AOF) qui comprend la Côte d'Ivoire, le Dahomey, la Guinée française, le Soudan, la Mauritanie, le Niger, le Sénégal et la Haute-Volta.

1917 Emergency Issues

B101a (

) 0.50 Franc Orange, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower
Orange, yellow, black.

Imprimerie: Gouv't Gén'al
11/2/1917

Filigrane: Bee pattern

B101b (

) 0.50 Franc Orange, Louis-Oscar Roty's Sower

11/2/1917

Filigrane: Laurel leaf pattern